Where to place your attention is without question a moral act. This is the understanding I am trying to help inject into the conversation around generative large language models. The more people energize worst-case outcomes the more we guarantee them. If we can help people get

Philippe Beaudoin Betaworks Mohamed Nanabhay Mark Surman This is precisely it! Focus on human agency to make ethical AI. (Limiting this to "products" strikes me as not future-proof since so many will be autonomous and potentially also begging for their own rights.) And yet there are persistent, apparently inescapable tensions between

Want to learn more about the results, insights, and learning of the OpenCivics Collaborative Research Grant Round? We just published our retrospective & love to work in public. Post below 👇 Huge gratitude to Gitcoin and Thank ARB for funding this groundbreaking research!

We're becoming immune to great events happening in the world, Adam Tooze on why we are ignoring the momentous changes in Bangladesh: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-31…

A concept you should know about: * Wissenkunst , michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/hotl-02 Michael Garfield explains: " the poet and historian William Irwin Thompson, coined the term Wissenkunst (German for “knowledge art”) to describe the play of ideas in complex fields of information, an

* book, The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for its History. Frank Furedi. Matt Goodwin: "As Professor Frank Furedi argues in an important new book, The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for its History, over the last twenty years, across the West,

* Diversity Won't Make Your Company More (Or Less) Productive persuasion.community/p/diversity-wo… "A new study shows that when it comes to performance, there isn’t much to either fear or to gain from diversifying."

Could commoners be the agent of change we are waiting for? On the International day of Democracy we welcome Michel Bauwens in the Elinor Ostrom Room of the Commons Hub to share insights and enter a dynamic conversation around commons and commoning. Join us Dec 15th!

* America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race Its build-up could start as early as 2026 economist.com/united-states/…?

* “Mind viruses” do not exist conspicuouscognition.com/p/there-is-no-… "Ideas, including bad ones, are not infectious mind viruses. This metaphor rests on an inaccurate picture of human psychology and social behaviour that functions to demonise, not understand. Because of this, it poisons

A great thinker of our times, I just started to read his classic book on 'Decadence': * Julien Freund: A Tribute To A Great Master. By Jerónimo Molina Cano. 2022, The Postil Magazine academia.edu/70248082/Julie… "one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. But his ideas

< Just as the capitalist system continuously produces and reproduces itself economically on higher and higher levels, the structure of reification progressively sinks more deeply, more fatefully and more definitively into the consciousness of man. > * The Value Form,

Is anyone here using Fathom ? and if so, what have been your experiences ? hello.fathom.fm

* The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey berghahnbooks.com/title/BalkanNe… "Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state